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I spent the last couple of days in Chicago at my first meeting as a member of the ABA Committee on Corporate Laws. I expect to blog regularly on issues that come up before us. In the meanwhile, however, I want to pass on a juicy bit of gossip I heard at the meeting. Allegedly, there is a certain Harvard law professor (well known to regular readers of this blog as one of my bête noires) who has been offered $600,000 per year by Yale. Wow.

It got me to wondering: What’s the highest pay any US law professor gets? And why aren’t I getting it? Answers to the first question are welcome. Answers to the second will be ruthlessly deleted unless they are exceptionally flattering.

Posted on Saturday, September 06 2008 | Permalink

"[W]hy aren’t I getting it?”

Except for proper conjugation, you have every other virtue, I’d say.

(Sufficiently flattering?)

Posted by on 09/08 at 08:50 AM

Hope you enjoyed our lovely city. Maybe this prof is the author of a Civ Pro book, and has agreed to fork the royalties over to his employer? Is a former appellate judge who can schmooze earmark funds from Congress? Wants to be able to say he is worth more than three first-year associates at a NYC BigLaw firm? Make exorbitant administrator salaries seem less large?

Otherwise, I haven’t a clue why a law prof would get paid that much. No offense, but having endured classes with such types, and worked as a litigator for too many years to count, I’d trust the real-world legal judgment of the typical Harvard (or Yale) law prof about as far as I can spit…

Cheers!

Posted by on 09/08 at 11:52 AM

Q2 - maybe you too much honest blogging without enough brown-nosing?

Perhaps you need to write a popular book.

Posted by on 09/08 at 12:27 PM

I sent this post around to my faculty. Its time the world understood the value of good corporate governance faculty!

Posted by Jay Brown on 09/08 at 02:16 PM

Chris---

Before you criticize the blog author’s conjugation skills, you might want to look up “aren’t” in a dictionary. Any ole dictionary will do--or even a quick Google search.

Posted by on 09/08 at 06:12 PM

Everyone knows that the proper contraction in this situation is “ain’t.”

Posted by on 09/08 at 06:56 PM

Huh. Wouldn’t’ve thunk it. That’ll teach me to be snarky. Urban Dictionary seems to agree with me, but I’ll defer to Merriam-Webster.

Posted by on 09/11 at 05:50 PM

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